Introduction & Call for Sponsors

[southabi.livejournal.com]

Hullo everyone! My name is Gail Southworth and I'm an interactive designer and a freelance artist. I usually only do one big project crowdfunded project per year, even though I love working on them. While I don't have a lot of disposable income, I definitely love to donate when I can. I'm particularly interested in projects that work towards a cause, since I'm very into disability advocacy and other social justice issues.

My current project is called, "Life as a Two-Headed Beast: Bipolar." It's a two-part piece that focuses on raising awareness about bipolar disorder and other mental illnesses through an educational Flash website and a digital illustration. The illustration will be printed on canvas, and make it's premier at the international art competition, ArtPrize.

I'm hoping to find some sponsors to help me raise money for the website and printing the painting. I have rewards for different levels of donation, including postcard prints, 8x10 illustrations from my art site, and custom vector portraits.

Please check out my Kickstarter campaign and help out.

Comments

Welcome!

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

>>Hullo everyone! My name is Gail Southworth and I'm an interactive designer and a freelance artist. <<

We're happy to have you here.

>>I'm particularly interested in projects that work towards a cause, since I'm very into disability advocacy and other social justice issues.<<

Yay! This is one of the really cool things that crowdfunding can do. If you watch this community, you'll see announcements for projects that call for prompts. That's a good opportunity to ask for the kind of writing/art/etc. that you want to see more of. Let's see, I run a Poetry Fishbowl once a month, aldersprig periodically does microfiction, and ellenmillion runs the Sketch Fest. Others pop up too.

I like your art project and have linked to it from various places.

Re: Welcome!

[southabi.livejournal.com]

Sounds wonderful! I know down the line (once the site is up) I'll be looking for fiction and poetry on mental illnesses for the site, so I'll keep an eye out on posts.

Thank you for the signal boost! =)

Re: Welcome!

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

Let me know if you want me to boost the signal for the submission call later; I have a handful of folks in my LJ audience who are interested in mental and/or physical disability.

You might also like Trouble over on Dreamwidth, who writes about disability and visibility:
http://trouble.dreamwidth.org/

Re: Welcome!

[southabi.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Any signal boosting would be appreciated =)